On Monday, TiVo announced a Java SDK called the Home Media Engine
(HME) and a corresponding simulation tool, all for writing PC
applications that target their digital recorder box. The announcement
has been heralded in many forums, notably
slashdot
, the New York Times, EWeek, Yahoo News, etc. You'd be hard pressed
to discover the fact that TiVo's new SDK is a set of Java APIs and a
new J2SE...